Thank you so much for all these wonderful early talkies, PizzaFlix. I recently discovered your channel and it's great to be transported to a different world. These cultural artifacts are the closest thing we have to a time machine, and really enjoying them.
OMG, YESSSS!!!🤣 I love it!! I also love how right to the point they are, usually about an hour long, and no unnecessaryadditional drama! I honestly don't even watch current movies because I don't have the patience for them anymore!
Mixing wasn't possible then. They would have had to play a gramophone with the actors talking over it in order to add music. Hitchcock once did that. But nevertheless I also enjoy the lack of music.
There's a lot of parole breaking in this movie. Man comes out of a coma and walks around town the next day. I do enjoy these old movies though. The acting in the talking movies from the late 20s and those from the early 30s are a cross between silents and the legitimate stage.
You got to give these old wonderful dramas a few minutes before the past ofthe story ends and then they alway settle into a wonderful storyline , for example now this story really gets started at 13:00 they are mostly like that , just don’t give up on them , the always start off different ,
He looked old when he was convicted so he should haved looked much more decrepit after 15 years. But he didn't, maybe even a bit younger. This film must have been remade as I feel I have seen it before.
Jacob Kranze or Jacob Krantz September 19, 1900 New York City, U.S. ALSO KNOWN AS RICARDO CORTEZ Died April 28, 1977 (aged 76) New York City, U.S. Resting place Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City Other names Jack Crane
I'm a little confused. First, the cops brought the girl in to finger the killer, which she did, RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. Logically, they should have had her point him out to them where he couldn't see her. Then she wouldn't be in any danger. But I thought, "Okay, they're doing that so the guy's buddies can kidnap her so she has to be rescued. Sure, it's contrived, but it's dramatic, so fine." But then the guy is caught and the girl rescued off-camera, making the whole kidnapping pointless. And I love how in these old movies the cops are such obnoxious bullies, saying things like "Why'd you do it?" and "You killed him, didn't you?" to try to get suspects to confess. Still, that's realistic for the time this was made, when coerced confessions were the norm, and a suspect invoking their right to remain silent was taken as an admission of guilt.
In old movies I was always struck by the hack work of the actors. In this one the same - awful acting. Well, there is no actor play at all. In the amateur theatre, they perform better.
The girl's boyfriend, Ricardo Cortez, was the first actor to portray Sam Spade on the silver screen in the original 1931 version of the "The Maltese Falcon," though that picture has been overshadowed by the much more famous 1941 version with Humphrey Bogart.
The song that is the theme of the movie, sung for entertainment, is unforgettable. I wish I had the music!
I love these old flicks...this one was really quite good!
Thank you so much for all these wonderful early talkies, PizzaFlix. I recently discovered your channel and it's great to be transported to a different world. These cultural artifacts are the closest thing we have to a time machine, and really enjoying them.
A good old fashioned happy ending❣ I too love old movies ❣ Thanks for posting these. 😇
I agree Mary :)
I keep waiting for The Cat and the Canary to come out on Blu-ray. On of my all time favorites! BTW, we need more Mary's in this world
Henry Walthall was a great actor in the early cinema.
Anybody else notice these old movies have no music? I'm actually enjoying the lack of music :)
OMG, YESSSS!!!🤣 I love it!! I also love how right to the point they are, usually about an hour long, and no unnecessaryadditional drama! I honestly don't even watch current movies because I don't have the patience for them anymore!
Mixing wasn't possible then. They would have had to play a gramophone with the actors talking over it in order to add music. Hitchcock once did that. But nevertheless I also enjoy the lack of music.
@@IntlPublications I wish movies would go back to not having music
Star Wars without music?
@@trukeesey8715 Maybe not Star Wars but I think movies today rely too much on music to elicit emotions and reactions from the audience.
Thanks for another terrific 1920s film!
This is a very good picture. The quality of this picture is amazing at the beginning of the sound area.
I always enjoy Ricardo Cortez movies, and never saw this one before (expect there are more I haven't seen). Great job, PizzaFlix. Big fan here.
Boy,if Only Life would be that Way,sometimes!!
Let’s smile and be happy 🙂
That was the 1920s ethos "... smile and be happy".
@@rodclay65Yes. After all, "The War To End All Wars" was over. YAY!🤔
Wow what a show, can't beat a happy ending.
Wow! The best RCA Photophone soundtrack I've ever heard. C.S Franklin and Neil Jack should be famous.
Perhaps the ultimate meaning of the word "curio": with good merit!
Hey watching this exactly 5 years after it was uploaded. What are the odds? Maybe I need to buy a lottery ticket? 😁
2,484 to 1... and that's just the odds on PizzaFLIX
PizzaFlix Hey I'll take those odds! Those are better than any big lottery odds! lol
I just watched it exactly a year after you watched it, after it was uploaded six years ago. What are the odds of that happening? 😍
@@jonimoroni7475July 8 2024
Even pre-code, they went with the happy ending! Entertaining film. Thanks for posting!
A nice cute little story.
Thank you!
This is a really good movie! I enjoyed watching very much. Merry Christmas to all from North Carolina 🎄🎄⛪🎄🎄
There's a lot of parole breaking in this movie. Man comes out of a coma and walks around town the next day. I do enjoy these old movies though. The acting in the talking movies from the late 20s and those from the early 30s are a cross between silents and the legitimate stage.
This is a Time Capsule Piece of Vintage Hollywood
You got to give these old wonderful dramas a few minutes before the past ofthe story ends and then they alway settle into a wonderful storyline , for example now this story really gets started at 13:00 they are mostly like that , just don’t give up on them , the always start off different ,
Very well put ! Great old drama .
Love this old movie, Thank You.
Thanks for the upload !! 15 Years of his life !!
I think it probably one of the first talkies B movie. Mother and daughter speak and act very stiff.
53:20 Talk about getting caught with your pants down! D'OH!! 😂
good movie, a little slow, but worth a watch.
thank you
Good movie
Excellent ☺
Ha, ha the closed caption at 31:27 the father asks, "and how will your mother's decision affect youtube" ?
Am wondering why he did not get sent to the hospital. The script went a little askew there But thank you for this old time drama.
God bless
So sappy I got a little misty eyed
A man with incredible honor
Nice to see Ricardo Cortez in a rôle where he isn't an ornery cuss. ala Bruce Dern.
That took a hard into schmaltz, at the end.
Thank you, I really enjoyed this movie! Great flick.
What great movie! Thank you
He looked old when he was convicted so he should haved looked much more decrepit after 15 years. But he didn't, maybe even a bit younger. This film must have been remade as I feel I have seen it before.
I love a Happy Ending .
that was a very strange movie dont know if I really liked it or hated it but I definately found it intriguiging
The eternal triangle with twists.
Prison is kidnappin. Anyone who participates in kidnappin a person and sendin him to prison is guilty of kidnappin. Penalty is death.
love it splendid movie
Jacob Kranze or
Jacob Krantz
September 19, 1900
New York City, U.S.
ALSO KNOWN AS RICARDO CORTEZ
Died April 28, 1977 (aged 76)
New York City, U.S.
Resting place Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York City
Other names Jack Crane
I'm a little confused. First, the cops brought the girl in to finger the killer, which she did, RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. Logically, they should have had her point him out to them where he couldn't see her. Then she wouldn't be in any danger. But I thought, "Okay, they're doing that so the guy's buddies can kidnap her so she has to be rescued. Sure, it's contrived, but it's dramatic, so fine." But then the guy is caught and the girl rescued off-camera, making the whole kidnapping pointless.
And I love how in these old movies the cops are such obnoxious bullies, saying things like "Why'd you do it?" and "You killed him, didn't you?" to try to get suspects to confess. Still, that's realistic for the time this was made, when coerced confessions were the norm, and a suspect invoking their right to remain silent was taken as an admission of guilt.
As corny as can be and I loved it!!!
It was a cross between silent movies and talkies I enjoyed it
Nice.
Omfg, a tennis raquet! Good grief, I always thought it was a trope!
Eh?
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In old movies I was always struck by the hack work of the actors.
In this one the same - awful acting. Well, there is no actor play at all. In the amateur theatre, they perform better.
ewww,
she kissed her father on the lips...definitely pre-code. lol
Definitely 2020 focus. The whole movie to you?
I've heard of none of the talent before.
The girl's boyfriend, Ricardo Cortez, was the first actor to portray Sam Spade on the silver screen in the original 1931 version of the "The Maltese Falcon," though that picture has been overshadowed by the much more famous 1941 version with Humphrey Bogart.